Description |
1 online resource (229 pages) |
Series |
Studies in English literatures, 1614-4651 ; volume 18 |
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Studies in English literatures ; Bd. 18.
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Contents |
""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""1 � A Coherent Design: An Introduction""; ""1.1 C.L.R. James�s Heideggerian Interpretation""; ""1.2 Hegelian Dialectics and Wilson Harris�s Novels""; ""1.3 Imaginative Poeticism: A Caribbean Perspective""; ""1.3.1 Consciousness and Ego Dynamics""; ""1.3.2 Poetics of Consciousness""; ""1.4 Gnostic Tradition and Faustian Themes""; ""2 � Time and History ""; ""2.1 Historiography and Contemporary Philosophies of History""; ""2.1.1 Western Historiography and Authoritarian Narratives""; ""2.1.2 Non-Western Traditions of History"" |
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""3 � Jungian and Pre-Modern Influences""""3.1 Jungian Influences""; ""3.2 Archetypal Images""; ""3.2.1 Archetypal Images in Earlier Novels""; ""3.2.2 Doctor Faustus and The Infinite Rehearsal""; ""3.2.3 Jonestown and the Shape of Evil""; ""3.2.4 The Mask of the Beggar and Ulyssean Images""; ""3.3 Archetypes, the Collective Unconscious, the World�s Unconscious and the Quest for Unity""; ""4 � Pre-Columbian Legacies""; ""4.1 Amerindians""; ""4.1.1 Guyanese Society""; ""4.1.2 Amerindians: Historical and Anthropological information""; ""4.1.3 Harris�s Main Anthropological Sources"" |
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""4.1.4 The Amerindian Legacy: An Imaginative Reading""""4.2 Meso-American and South-American Main Civilisations""; ""4.2.1 The Maya""; ""4.2.2 The Inca and Atahualpan Void""; ""5 � Conclusions: The Perspective of Living Landscapes""; ""Bibliography"" |
Summary |
Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris' works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author's complex imagination. As a valuable contribution to Caribbean Literature and Philosophy, Harris' imaginative approach to reality is discussed in relation to the categories of history and time with reference to several novels, from ""Palace of The Peacock"" to ""The Mask of the Beggar"", with a special focus on ""The Infinite Rehearsal"", ""Jonestown"" and ""The Dark Jester"", spanning more than forty years of his vast literary production, encompass |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2015) |
Subject |
Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Harris, Wilson fast |
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Space and time.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy
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Space and time
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783838262659 |
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3838262654 |
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